Centennial Celebration of California Women’s Right to Vote

Centennial Celebration of California Women’s Right to Vote

First Program in Series:  September 10 at 3 PM

The Benicia-Vallejo Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), League of Women Voters Benicia, Soroptimist of Benicia, the Benicia Historical Society, and the Benicia Unified School District have joined together to plan a fall series of events to celebrate the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in California.

California became the sixth state in the country where women could vote on October 10, 1911 – nine years ahead of the passage of the 19^th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920 that empowered women with the vote across the country.

The first event in this fall series will feature keynote speaker Laura Chick, who most recently served as California's Inspector General overseeing the state's spending of $85 billion of Federal Recovery Act funding. She is on the Board of Directors of California Women Lead, a non-profit, non-partisan association of women holding or interested in holding an elected or appointed office.